Abstract. We obtain some L 2 -results for ∂ on forms that vanish to high order on the singular set of a complex space. As a consequence of our main theorem we obtain weighted L 2 -solvability results for compactly supported ∂-closed (p, q)-forms (0 ≤ p ≤ n, 1 ≤ q < n) on relatively compact subdomains Ω of the complex space that satisfy H n−q (Ω, S) = 0 = H n−q+1 (Ω, S) for every coherent O X -module S. The latter result can be used to give an alternate proof of a theorem of Merker and Porten.